Private Giving Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 857210744RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($147,467,890) as filed with the CRA.
Private Giving Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $298.9M in revenue and $147.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $33.1M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4,995 qualified donees totalling $132.4M in 2024, the largest being $10M to London Community Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $144.3M in 2020 to $298.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The PGF was established to support and increase charitable giving in Canada. Donors have the ability to make irrevocable Charitable Donations and make recommendations on the placements of Grants to Registered Charities and other qualified Donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $298.9M | $147.5M | — | — | $131.9M | $970.2M |
| 2023 | $236.6M | $118.5M | — | — | $105.9M | $818.8M |
| 2022 | $84.1M | $98.5M | — | — | $87.2M | $700.7M |
| 2021 | $288.1M | $94.7M | — | — | $83.7M | $715.3M |
| 2020 | $144.3M | $84.4M | — | — | $76.3M | $522M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $132.4M to 4,995 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- London Community Foundation$10M
- Redeemer University$7M
- Shalom Manor Long Term Care Home$3M
- The Hospital for Sick Children$3M
- Paralympic Foundation of Canada$2M
- Victoria Humane Society$2M
- Paralympic Foundation of Canada$2M
- Indwell Community Homes$1.9M
- The Toronto Symphony Foundation$1.7M
- Crandall University$1.5M
- Dortdt College$1.4M
- Crossroads Christian Communications$1.3M
- The Great Commission Foundation$1.3M
- The Samaritans Purse-Canada$1.3M
- World Vision Canada$1.3M
- The Lara and Bert Clark Family$1.3M
- Advancing the Ministries of the$1.1M
- World Renew$1M
- Victoria Hospitals Foundation$1M
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$1M
- Tree Canada$1M
- Town of Aurora$1M
- Teen Challenge Canada Inc$1M
- Teen Challenge Canada Inc$1M
- ST. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation$1M
Received $33.1M from 10 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julia Gorman (director); Jacquie Lovelock (director); Denny Young (director); Darrell Gebhardt (director); Alison Holt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Private Giving Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857210744RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.